I hate to bag a guy who is single handedly making his team not so ©rap, and its hard to do cause I know others that I respect hold him so dear, but sometimes you have to get your hands dirty.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the little boy made good, is probably holding up 4 batsmen that would struggle to get regular games for a Bangladesh A side.
He continually gets runs as his team mates fall down like disabled lemmings at a suicide club.
I can forgive his 65 off 223 balls, because sometimes you have to bat like that.
I can forgive him not hitting out when he was batting with the tail, because he may not have felt in that sort of form.
But I can’t forgive him leaving a regulation ball outside off stump from the last delivery of an over, with the number 11 (batting average of 4) standing at the other end.
If he did it without thinking, that’s sh1t cricket, but I don’t believe a 33 year old cricketer with over 100 tests to his name would not think to shield a number 11.
So what does that leave us with, did he decide he’d rather sure up his not out rather than try and push for a single, or was he just over protecting the tailenders.
It was a very poor effort from a class act.
Fidel Edwards went out the next over, he fell over defending a full straight ball, so maybe I should thank Shiv for giving me a laugh.
Fidel great name that, those wacky west indian parents sure know how to name their little ones.
In other Windie news, they may have only made 240 odd, but they have South Africa 4/120 with Kallis, Smith, Neil, and Deans Jones mate all out.
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